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Duck found with arrow in neck

Veternarians tend to a wounded domestic white duck

Photo credit: Handout | Veternarians tend to a wounded domestic white duck after it was found on a lawn in North Patchogue with a target arrow piercing its neck. The duck is recovering at the Save the Animals Rescue Foundation, a wildlife rehabilitator in Middle Island. The SPCA is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator. (Oct. 14, 2012)

A domestic white duck was found on a lawn in North Patchogue with a target arrow piercing its neck, and authorities are searching for the culprit who shot it.

Roy Gross, chief of the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said the wounded adult Pekin duck, probably an abandoned pet, was found alive Saturday on Poe Place by a resident who often feeds the ducks in the...

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